Are you a police officer, then? Ah, I can see how it could have become a habit.

[He looks down, thinking in silence for a long moment. She's harsh, but she seems honest; certainly she's willing to answer his questions even when he's avoiding hers. Perhaps he'll trust what she has to say.] And I suppose there's no way to know if we're sleeping in reality as long as it seems to us in the dream?

How troublesome!